She also originated the role of Imelda Marcos in the Broadway production of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s Here Lies Love.

Her first taste of professional theatre came at the age of ten when she was cast in a new musical called Honor Song for Crazy Horse at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts in California.

Off-Broadway, she has starred in two world-premiere plays by Nilo Cruz: Sotto Voce, and the one-woman show Farhad or the Secret of Being which was filmed for the Lincoln Center Public Library Archives.

She performed in the Guggenheim Museum’s "Works & Process" series, singing songs from a new adaption of Georges Bizet's Carmen with the Tectonic Theater Project.

In 2022, Jacobs reprised her role as Delilah in the off-Broadway premiere of Between the Lines based on the book of the same title by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer.

In April 2023 it was announced that she would be returning to Broadway in the role of Imelda Marcos in David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s Here Lies Love.